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  • Democrat Stein wins North Carolina governor's race

    11/05/2024 5:01:14 PM PST · by Coronal · 57 replies
    Reuters ^ | November 5, 2024 | Joseph Ax
    Nov 5 (Reuters) - Democrat Josh Stein won the North Carolina governor's race on Tuesday, Fox News projected, defeating Republican Mark Robinson, whose candidacy imploded following a CNN report that he had called himself a "Black Nazi" and made other offensive remarks on a pornographic website. Robinson, the Southern state's lieutenant governor, has denied the allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN. Robinson was endorsed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who previously praised him as "Martin Luther King on steroids" but whose campaign distanced itself after the scandal broke in September. Robinson advocated for bringing back slavery for...
  • Moderates fleeing U.S. House, setting stage for more Washington gridlock

    09/14/2022 6:16:29 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 31 replies
    news.yahoo.com ^ | 9/14/22 | Joseph Ax and Jason Lange
    Moderate members of the U.S. House of Representatives are leaving office at twice the rate of their more partisan peers this year, a Reuters analysis found, likely deepening Washington gridlock during President Joe Biden's next two years in office. The number of incumbent House members retiring or who lost a party nomination contest is at a three-decade high after a once-a-decade redistricting process that eliminated more than a dozen of the country's dwindling number of competitive districts. Now all 50 states have finished their nominating contests, 13 of Congress's 50 most centrist members - about one in four - did...
  • U.S. appeals court reinstates Florida voting limits that judge had deemed discriminatory

    05/07/2022 8:27:13 AM PDT · by fwdude · 33 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 6, 2022 | Joseph Ax
    NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated Florida's new Republican-backed voting restrictions, overruling a judge's decision that several provisions such as limits on ballot drop boxes were racially discriminatory. U.S. Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee had struck down the bulk of the law in March, finding that lawmakers had designed the legislation to be "intentionally discriminatory" against Black voters. He also ordered the state to seek court approval to make any changes to the provisions in question for the next 10 years. But a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...